CCZT Contributors
CCZT Overview
Developers
Michael J Herndon
IT Senior Compliance Manager, Bayer A.G.
Jacob Kline
Principal Cyber Architecture and Resiliency Engineer at MITRE
Successful exploitation of the United States by ever increasingly sophisticated cyber adversaries continues to accelerate and adversely impact American lives. Jacob Kline’s current pursuit is to maneuver the Department of the Air Force into the adoption of a Zero Trust Architecture, enabling the Warfighter to securely access data anytime and anywhere, and enhancing the DAF’s ability to project power over the adversaries of the United States...
Dr. Matthew Meersman
Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE & PhD Student
Vani Murthy
Sr. Information Security Compliance Advisor, Akamai Technologies
Vani has 20+ years of IT experience in the areas such as Security, Risk, Compliance, Cloud services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) architecture
Michael Roza
Risk, Audit, Control and Compliance Professional at EVC
Since 2012 Michael has contributed to over 100 CSA projects completed by CSA's Internet of Things, Zero Trust/Software-Defined Perimeter, Top Threats, Cloud Control Matrix, Containers/Microservices, DevSecOps, and other working groups. He has also served as co-chair of CSA's Enterprise Architecture, Top Threats, and Security-as-a-Service working groups while also serving as the Standards Liaison Officer for IoT, ICS, EA, SECaaS, and Cloud K...
Abhishek R. Singh
Co-Founder and CEO, Araali Networks
Prasad T
Head - Information Security at Verse Innovation
Sky Hackett
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Simon Johnson
Security Design Engineer at Direct Line Group
Editors
Kim Woodbeck
Supplier Management and Risk Lead at Common Securitization Solutions
Heinrich Smit
CISO & Risk Management at Semperis
Heinrich is a recognized Information Protection and Zero Trust expert who started out in Law, and pivoted to his love of technology during the Tech Boom. He has led teams at software innovators and large financial institutions, has authored entire Information Security Policy stores, and has protected data at both 280,000 seat regulated enterprises and SAAS-based startup unicorns. He is passionate about Privacy and Zero Trust, as well as Def...
Jaye Tillson
Director of Strategy at Axis Security
Alex Sharpe
Managing Director at Sharpe42
Mr. Sharpe is a long-time (+30 years) Cybersecurity, Governance, and Digital Transformation expert with real-world operational experience. Mr. Sharpe has run business units and has influenced national policy. He has spent much of his career helping corporations and government agencies create value while mitigating cyber risk. This provides him a pragmatic understanding of the delicate balance between Business realities, Cybersecurity, and O...
Ashwindi Siddhi
Sr. Principal Product Security Advisor, Dell Technologies
Alexander Stein
IT Cybersecurity Specialist, NIST
Mohamed Elaarag
Director Risk Advisory at Deloitte Canada
Mehmet Gulyurt
Systems Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Bharat K. Aggarwal
Associate Director (GRC) at Birlasoft
John C. Checco
Chief Information Security Officer at Proofpoint
Satyavathi Divadari
Global Head of Enterprise Security Architecture at OpenText
Vinay Dubey
Journey Expert (Cloud Data, Security & GRC) at ANZ
Ray Ellis
Global Head of Enterprise Security Architecture at Philip Morris International
Moshe Ferber
Chairman at Cloud Security Alliance, Israel
Moshe Ferber is a recognized industry expert and popular public speaker, with over 20 years’ experience at various positions ranging from the largest enterprises to innovative startups. Currently Ferber focuses on cloud security as certified instructor for CCSK & CCSP certification and participate in various initiative promoting responsible cloud adoption.
Johny Gasser
Strategist & Business Advisor – Cyber Security and Risk Management at Orange Business
Noah Gray
Solution Architecture Director at PwC
Sanjeev Gupta
Director - Cloud Assurance Programs at CPG Singapore
Omar Guzman
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer at Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Arif Hameed
Chief Information Security Officer at C&R Software
Peter Holcomb
Director, Information Security at eMed Digital Healthcare
Patrick Biselela Kabongo
Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
Ahmed Magdy
Cybersecurity Senior Manager at Sky Deutschland GmbH
Raul Paolo Miranda
Vice President at (ISC)2 Singapore
Gordon Moreau
Information Security Architect at W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Sowrirajan Padmanabhan
Senior Product Manager
Sangram Rath
Founder & Cloud Architect at OD10 Ventures
Amit Sharma
Senior Consultant Cyber Security at HCL Technologies
Vaibhav Sharma
Global Product Services lead - Cyber Security CSA IOT Co-Chair at TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbH
Vaibhav has been working in industrial cyber security for the last 16 years. In the past, he worked for CSA as a ZTA exam reviewer. Currently also Senior Member for ISA Working Groups and Standard Committee. Strengths in Cloud security, risk Advisory Consulting, Operation Risk Assessments, program management, design & implementation specialist for project controls.
Strong industry experience with technical, communication & delivery sk...
Soontorn Sirapaisan
Information Security Research Team Leader at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Gustavo Vallejo
Professor, EALDE Business School
Brad Voris
Information Security Architect at Walmart Global Technology
Thanos Vrachnos
Cyber Security Consultant at SpearIT
Ryan Green
Director at RMG Cyber Consulting
Saurabh Singh
Deputy General Manager at HCL Technologies
Reviewers
Rajat Agrawal
Senior Consultant at Clevigour Solutions
Miguel Angel Arenas
Manager, GRC at Thomson Reuters
Collin Brown
Senior Consultant, Cyber Security at Bell Canada
Ajay Chandramouly
Director at Oracle
Desmond Cher
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Kevin Davies
Principal Security Consultant at Cognizant
Genesio Di Sabatino
SASE Technical Leader at BeDisruptive
Peter van Eijk
Head Coach at ClubCloudComputing.com
Dr. Peter van Eijk is one of the world's most experienced cloud trainers. He offers CCSK as an instructor-led online course, as well as in-person. He is an authorized CSA CCSK (since 2011) and (ISC)2 CCSP trainer with a passion to make you more effective in your work.
Eyal Estrin
Author, Cloud Security Architect at Undisclosed
Nicolas Grzesitchak
Cloud Security Engineer at SAP
Mehmet Gulyurt
Systems Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Ali Iskili
Systems Security Engineering Manager at Aselsan
Bill Izzo
Director, Cloud Security Governance at Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
Innovative leader with a strong technical and business background with a track record of success across multiple technology domains and markets. Senior business management and technical leadership experience in the DOD, Private, and Government sectors. Years of experience in the management of medium to large network and systems engineering teams with significant experience in the management of large multi-million dollar data com...
Liz Jaluague
Senior Security Engineer at Driven (by Purpose Unlimited)
Diego López
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Consultant & Auditor at Deloitte
Dimitris Maketas
Senior Project Manager
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Alberto Manfredi
President and Country Leader, CSA Italy
MSc in Computer Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Milan with the highest marks and honors, he has been working in the Information Technology market for over 30 years, of which more than 20 in the field of Cyber and Information Security. Since 2002 he has been working at Leonardo SpA, where in recent years he has held the role of Divisional CISO and Senior Advisor in the Corporate Security function and ...
Marcus Maxwell
Director - Consulting | Security at Cognizant
Robert D. Morris
Lead Cyber Security Architect at MITRE
A cybersecurity expert with 16 years of experience ranging from incident response, forensics, solution engineering, risk management, compliance, security architecture, and leadership in industries such as high-tech, defense contracting, and public sector.
Reema Parappilly
Partner, IT Advisory Services at Weaver & Tidwell, LLP
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Eric Peeters
Senior Manager at Weaver
Rich Phillips
Enterprise and Security Architect at Worldwide Technology
Tommy Pigeon
Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting
Lars Ruddigkeit
Account Technology Strategist, Swiss FedGov
Lars Ruddigkeit completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bern in 2013 with a focus on computer-aided drug design. He began his professional career at Accenture in technology consulting in Big Data and Data Science. At UBS, he specialized in operational machine learning and cybersecurity as a machine learning architect in the Financial Service industry. He is a contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance working groups for Zero Tru...
Didier Santos
Information Security Officer
Rishi Sharma
Red Team Engineer at Virtually Testing Foundation
Paul Simmonds
CEO at Global Identity Foundation & Board Member of CSA UK Chapter
Paul is the CEO of the Global Identity Foundation and formerly the global CISO of AstraZeneca, ICI and prior to that Motorola Cellular Infrastructure. He is twice listed as one of Network World’s “most powerful people in networking”. He is a director of the Cloud Security Alliance (Europe), co-founded the Jericho Forum, and sits on the advisory boards of a number of global tech companies.
Raghvendra Singh
Head, Cloud Security CoE at Tata Consultancy Services
Prasad T
Head - Information Security at Verse Innovation
Bernard Tan
Director for Government Cybersecurity Consulting, GovTech
Bernard is a Director in GovTech leading the GovTech Cybersecurity consultancy team to provide risk based consultancy services to architect the cybersecurity of Nationwide and Governmentwide strategic projects.
Through his 16 years in the public sector, he has undertaken various cybersecurity roles and projects in areas of Homeland security. He held key roles such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Information se...
Ken Underhill
Co-Founder at Cyber Life
Lenard Vega
Corporate DevSecOps Lead at Credicorp
Dr. Mike S. Vo
Executive Officer & Enterprise Solutions Architect at MSQV, LLC
Lulu Hernandez Walker
Senior Manager in IT Advisory at Weaver
Shankar Chebrolu
Director of Security Architecture at Red Hat and President of CSA Triangle Chapter
Vana Khurana
Sr. Security Architect, Specialist at Amazon Web Services
Vana Khurana is Board Member and Director of Training at Cloud Security Alliance Delaware Valley Chapter. She also has a day job as Cloud Security Architect at a leading financial firm. In addition, she is a speaker, a mentor, and influencer and Professor Adjunct at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She holds CCSK, CCSP, CISSP, GSEC, AWS Architect, and TOGAF certifications. She loves the economy and growth of the public cloud and its c...
Shruti Kulkarni
Information Security Architect, Elexon
I am a security professional with experience across various domains of security. I work in defining organisation’s security strategy, security architecture and security practices. Translating business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services. I work on gap analysis, design, implementation and...
Roman Mesa Martinez
Cybersecurity & Cloud Director at Meta-Data
Dr. Victor Monga
CISO and Adjunct Professor at Virtually Testing Foundation
With the help of his Chapter, Victor helped create a CCSK study group, which met once a week for 6 weeks, covering the 6 domains of the CCSK online training course. There were 42 participants who registered for this weekly study group, and they made recordings and slides of each meeting available on the CSA LA/SoCal Chapter YouTube channel. In addition, 30 complimentary CCSK self-paced training course licenses were provided to individuals ...
Sreekumar S
Vice President Cybersecurity Services at HCL Technologies
Stuart Shull
IT Specialist at United States Department of Agriculture
Wisnu Tejasukmana
Cloud Security Architect at SLB
Simon Wong
Associate Partner, Cybersecurity at EY
Xavier Alonso Llauca Uchupailla
Cloud Security Engineer